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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
1
Washington reports serious doubts on applying Col. William Mitchell’s five year suspension from the army without pay as a precedent. Officials privately praise the ruling while awaiting the board of review and Secretary of War Davis to approve the verdict.
Warren Jewell, 14, of Korman Heights Massillon, arrested after a burglary at Dr. Howard Smith’s home. Police tie fingerprints to four robberies and believe he may be connected to about a dozen earlier break-ins as officers pursue further links. Capt. Ben Clark assisted Canton police in the investigation.
Suburbs suffer wholesale looting totaling more than 60000 traced to a teen gang with a 15 year old alleged leader arrested. In Chicago a bandit and rum runner Jules Portuegese seized a cash bag worth 300900 in gems in a taxicab. Nick Christo explained jury duty delay due to scarlet fever. he is jailed. Theodor Koerner shot his wife and killed himself after failing to solve a crossword. A 25900000 building project in New York nears start by Fred F. French Co. to create a residential colony of apartments hotels and garages. Kenneth Red leads a Columbus gang facing robbery charges after stealing 14 cars and raiding three holdups. The state industrial commission will distribute 142000 among 5300 injured workers. Robert Bick dies at 12 after street football accident. Dr Cadman predicts U S entry to the World Court within a year at a goodwill dinner with 600 attendees.
Mrs Birdie Strome 59 of New Carlisle Ohio faces imprisonment in the Marysville site reformatory for women after being found guilty of poisoning her 14 year old step daughter Meta Strome on Oct 3. She prepared to appeal within three days and offered no comment beyond a remark to a jail attendant that she did not think the jury verdict was right.
Officers of the Canton Builders Exchange announce the election of 11 directors from among 24 nominees at the January meeting. The completed slate includes Baum, Firestone, Hart, Koenreich, A J Ten, Loehr, Rite, Walker, Weber, Whitmire and others.
Washington dispatch notes President Coolidge likely to see Col. Mitchell resign after a court martial verdict that avoids dismissal. Foreseen political fallout includes aviation policy debates and possible congressional action on aircraft expansion and the Morrow report.
Olive Kirk is jailed in Lorain charged with shooting her husband Thomas Kirk a shipping board representative. He was wounded and dying in hospital after he says he tried to assault her. the gun discharged during the struggle.
Earl Anderson, indicted on grand larceny, pleaded guilty to petit larceny on Thursday. Judge E. W. Deh sentenced him to 30 days in the workhouse.
Attorneys for the plaintiff rested their case in the $25 000 Shaw Webb horse whipping suit. William Lloyd Shaw testified most of the morning denying an auto theft arrest in Cleveland and admitting a prior Pennsylvania charge. Witnesses described Shaw and a woman staying at a rooming house and Shaw claiming Klan involvement.
George Beyoglides, a Tuscarawas Street East merchant, found guilty in Judge Diehl's room of setting a building on fire to prejudice an insurer. Firemen discovered four gasoline tubs linked to electric fuses in his store after a blaze. State witnesses said stock insured above its real value. Sentence deferred pending motion for new trial.
Bordighera Italy Dec 18 The queen mother Margherita ill with influenza and pleuro pneumonia is near a crisis and likely to be out of danger today according to a bulletin. Her pulse and temperature are nearly normal.
The tuberculosis hospital building commission authorized H. W. Harter Jr to draft a detailed contract with architect A L Thayer for drawing detailed plans. Upon completion the commission will meet Thayer to finalize the agreement.
A spontaneous combustion of oils and paints gutted the Mast Foos and Co. plant in Springfield C. causing about 500000 in damage as high winds fanned the flames.
Paul Henderson, 45, an aluminum salesman from Chicago, went insane during a Pittsburgh sales meeting. On a fast Canton to Chicago train the man tried to dive through a lavatory window. He was restrained but died after his head struck a pole. The coroner ruled accidental death.
Lorain police label a roaming thief as the phantom bandit after he burglarized the home of Arthur Kerchinski and is linked to 22 robberies in three weeks. He operates alone and reportedly averages no robberies per night, raising ongoing concerns.
Officials and members of the Pittsburgh vein operators association in Columbus seek reduced freight rates to boost output from eastern Ohio coal mines. A. A. Augustus of Cleveland led conferees with their counsel FE Ballard of Chicago and D F Hurd of Cleveland.
Aultman hospital trustees propose arbitration to settle the controversy. Former staff members were to meet to consider the plan, trustees met nurses to urge them to stay, but the nurses reportedly refused. The board suggests submitting the matter to the Ohio State Committee for Hospitals and Medical Education, affiliated with the AMA.
Washington December 18 A new bill would compel consolidation of all American railroads into a few transcontinental systems. Senator Albert B Cummins Republican of Iowa co author of the Esch Cummins act said the measure will be introduced in the Senate tomorrow and backed by the administration. Three years would be allowed for voluntary consolidation after which the Interstate Commerce Commission would be empowered to carry out compulsory consolidations.
Debate on joining the World Court continues in the U S Senate with pro and anti groups mobilizing large mail campaigns. A 63 vote minimum is seen as the base, with leaders hoping to win enough undecided and opposed lawmakers before the February-March showdown.
Rep Lawiardia of New York introduced in the House a bill prohibiting punishment of any army or Marine officer who earned the Congressional Medal or Distinguished Service Cross when court martialed for wartime offenses causing loss of rank pay or allowance for more than 30 days. The measure seeks relief for Col William Afitehell, an Army filer sentenced to a five year suspension.
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